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Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

I see alot of people transporting pumpkins in the back of their trucks and trailers not strapping them down. This is a foolish move..Wedge them with a few bales of straw, or throw a strap over them. When they start moving on you it is something you will wish you had done.

10/4/2006 10:32:23 PM

Ohio

Yep. I agree Shannon,my wife, buddies and I just moved my last four of six pumpkins of the season to the scale and all of them was put on a skid. I had never had a pumpkin move in the back of my truck ever. But I learned my lesson after my 604 slid back and hit the tail gate.(Bed liner + skid and hill = loud noise smashing the tail gate) Ill never listen to them guys again(my friends mostly) saying,''Aww that pumpkin isnt going no where,it will be alright''. Ill now stap them all down. My first two I hauled to Barnesville on the skids I had to leave my tail gate open and didnt strap them down, nothing happened but looking back now, boy was that stupid. A person wouldnt think them big ol pumpkins would move but trust me they do. Strap them all down, big or small.

Brooks

10/5/2006 8:47:42 AM

Utah

Newton's First Law of Motion:
I. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.

In other words if you are going 65 mph down the highway with a giant pumpkin in the back of your truck ... and you have to stop suddenly the pumpkin wants to continue to go at 65 mph in the same direction that it was heading... ie towards you! If you don't strap it down the only thing that can stop it before it hits the front of the bed and cab is a the friction between it and the pallet and the friction between the pallet and the bed of the truck... which isn't much.

10/5/2006 1:12:09 PM

Somers, CT

I think murphy's law applies as well.

10/5/2006 3:19:43 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Rob T., Murphys Law...applied to all us pkn growers says what...????we are all, pretty much insane?...LOL I agree with the safety issue though, saw pics, my first year 'round this site of a pkn mashed half way thru the cab of a pk'up truck after a panic stop. Peace, Grace, Safe Travels, and 20% Heavy to all this weekend, Wayne

10/6/2006 12:18:47 AM